What about focus on alternative things, such as best practices, patterns, other ways of solving problems?

Not sure if you only have to talk about MS products, technologies and methodologies, but if not, you could talk more about NHibernate, Dependency injection, IOC containers such as StructureMap, Ninject, etc , testing and TDD.

The last year I’ve read and learned more about stuff that the ALT.NET community preaches, which can be a bit different that what MS preaches. It wasn’t until I heard about alt.net that I learned about TDD, DI/IOC, etc. These techniques creates better code and solutions.

The .NET community is in many ways seriously lagging behind other communities such as Java and Ruby, and I feel we can learn alot from them and that is what alt.net to some extent is doing.

Carlos on
January 6th, 2010 11:15 am

I’s be interested in learning more about using the Entity Framework as well

John Ross on
January 6th, 2010 11:24 am

I would like to see MVC with forms auth. and a custom db on the backend. I think a lot of government enterprise works in this manner with external apps. (At least I have for ~10yrs.) But I can never seem to find a good source on the subject. Just examples not really best practices and a full blown example.

Dave S on
January 6th, 2010 11:41 am

If you are looking for a void to fill that no one is covering, how about do a multi table data edit program that has 30 to 50 fields connected to a 4 or 5 tables storage tables with 20 or more support tables using formview and direct connect. Those people who are rewritting vb6 app forms to asp.net web data entry forms run into this issue a lot with no examples to follow. oh by the way, grids not allow and master detail relationship number in the 20’s, have a few hundred thousand records. and make it all fast. That real life examples that would help me the most. And i never run across those.

I know you are doing wonderful job with blog and videos. However, msft is pumping out too many changes and to frequently and developers have to learn extra or same with slightly different technology (mvc and web forms). I would say make something complete and more stable solutions.